20 Crowns - Elizabeth II Columbus claims land for Spain

Issued as part of the wave of commemoratives marking the Quincentenary of Columbus's 1492 landfall, this piece is one of three variants sharing the same KM base number — differing in finish or packaging rather than design. The Turks and Caicos Islands hold a particular geographic stake in the commemoration: several historians and navigators, most notably the work of National Geographic's Luis Marden and the calculations of Joseph Judge, have argued that the first landfall was not the Bahamian island of San Salvador but rather Grand Turk itself. The debate was never resolved.